Combined cuff and wristband for shirts.



H. R. MARTIN.

COMBINED can" AND WRISTBAND FOR SHIRTS.

APPLIOATION FILED MAR. 25, 1912.

1 952, 1 58 Patented Feb. 4, 1913.

HULDA ILMABTIN, or BALTIMORE, martyr-AND.

commrn'n corn AND waisr'naivn FOR smears.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 4, 1913.

Application filed March 25, 1912.: Serial No. 686,068.

To all whom 2'25 may concern:

Be it known that I, HULDA MARTIN,

a citizen of the United States, residing at Baltimore, in the Stateof Maryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Combined Cuifs and Wristbands for Shirts, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in a combined wristband, duplex cuff and sleeve for mens shirts.

In the case of ordinary permanentlyattached cuffs, a shirt worn only once often has to be sent to the laundry merely because the exposed part of the cuff has become soiled, while in other respects the shirt may be quite clean. 7

The invention has for its object to provide for soft or neglige shirt sleeveswh ch shall have a wristband and two permanently attached turn-back cufi's of diiferent length so arranged that both cufls may be turned back outwardly the longer concealing and protecting the shorter cuff, to the end that when the said outermost longer cuff by wear has become soiled, it may be turned from the outside position to the nner side position next to the wearers wrist and thus leave the shorter clean c| 1fi ,exposed in its outer turned back position.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which,

Figure 1 isa view of the outside of part of a s'hirtesleeve and showing the two cuifs and one wristband attached thereto, -the cuifs being stretched out flat. Fig. 2' 1s a vertical section showing an edge view of the sleeve, wristband and two cuffs. Fig. 3 is a side view showing the outside of the sleeve and two cufi's both turned over outwardly; a portion of the outermost turned back cufl'is shown broken away to exposeunderneath culf. Fig. 4; is a vertical section on the line 44 in Fig. 3 showing the outermost turned-back position of both cufis in said Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is an outside view of the .duplex turn-over cull", showing the longer cufi turned over as when soiled to the inner side of the sleeve as indicated by a broken line crosswise of the sleeve, and exposing on the outside the shorter cuff. Fig.

6 is an inside view of a'sleeve and wristband, and a fiat view of the longer cuif, which latter hides the shorter cufi from view.

The two cufis, A, B, each of double thick- 'to the gatheredend of the edit, 1 A, then being ness and the wristband, O, also doublethick, may be made'of one piece of fabric; the wristband, O, is attached by stitches, 1,

shirt-sleeve, D- this wrlstband is iiever folded but at all times extends in aidirection straight away from the end of sleeve, D. The line of stitches, 3, extending parallel with the wristband is the attaching liiie of thetw'o cufls, or the dividing line the two cufls' of diflerent say, when both cufls are extended in -a direction straight away from the wristband, as in Figs. 1 and 2, the inner culf, A, will be slightly longer than the outer cuff, B. By having this difference in ment is perfectly clean both cufi's together may be folded back on the outer side of the wristband or sleeve as in Fig; 3, the longer pletely cover and protect the entire shorter cuff, B. While both cuffs are thus turned on the outside the folded edge, 4, will be exposed on the wrist of the wearer and is the part that will. soonest show evidence of soil. After this exposed edge, 4:, has been. soiled, the longer cuif, A, may be turned from the outside position it has in Fig. 3, to the innersideosition next to the wearers wrist, seen in ig, '5 at the broken between the wristband and the two cuifs. E prefer to make length, that is to I size, when the garoutermost will comline extending crosswise of thesleeve, which reverses its surfaces and places a cleansur face next to the skin of the wrist. This turning of one cuff from the outside and folding it within the wristband, leaves the second and clean cufl, B, exposed outward.

Each cuff is provided at its opposite ends with a button-hole, 5; the two button-holes of one cuif are so placed as to register with the holes of the other cuff, whereby whichever way the cuffs may be .turnedwhether both cufis are turned outward as in Figs. 3

and 4, or one turned outward and the other turned inward as indicated in Fig.- 5-a cuff-button may be inserted through the four regstered holes in the four ends of cufls. To make it entirely practicable thus to use a cuff-button so as to confine the four ends of two cufl's, I form in the wristband two notches, 6, one notch being at each end of the wristband, C;

cuffs are turned or folded either inward or outward along or near the wristband line, 3, of stitches, four button-holes, 5, will regthe position of these two notches is such that when the two ister with the said notches, 6, and one endbutton may then be inserted through all of the four holes because no part of the wristband interferes. The notches, 6, have the practical effect of shortening the wristband; the same'efiect would'be produced were the ends of the Wristband, C, cut-ofi squarely across instead of being notched. 7

Having thus described'my invention what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 3- The combination with a shirt-sleeve of a wristband attached to the sleeve and said wristband provided at each extremity with a notch or cut-away shaped to give the practical efl'ect of shortening the wristband and two cuzds both permanently attached by stitches to said wristband-one of said ends being longer than and also completely over:

tenants lapping the other, and the longer cufi being attached to the wristband so as to bring it next to the wrist of the wearer, whereby both ends while overlapping each other may be turned back butwardly in which position the longer c'ufi will completely conceal and protect the shorter one; and said two ends having button-holes the holes in one end registering with those in the other, and also when both c'ufi's are turned back the button-holes in four thicknesses of cuffends will register with the said two notches in the extremites of the wristband.

In testimony whereof ll alfix my signature inpresence of two witnesses.

HULDA R. MARTIN. Witnesses:

Gees. B. MANN, G. Fnnn. Voe'r. 

